
2024 Overview
2024 was a challenging year for craft brewers, but adaptability kept small decreases from being substantially larger. However, this might be craft’s new environment
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No brewery works in a silo. Brewers Association staff, including Chief Economist Bart Watson, keep close tabs on the statistics and trends that affect the entire craft brewing community. Keep up with the latest numbers to ensure the success and growth of your business using the resources in this category.
2024 was a challenging year for craft brewers, but adaptability kept small decreases from being substantially larger. However, this might be craft’s new environment
Despite difficult conditions, the brewpub business model still presents a wealth of opportunities unavailable to production breweries and even satellite sampling spaces.
In 2024, microbreweries learned to embrace a new definition of success. The segment was the hardest hit among all craft brewing categories, decreasing 7.5%.
Taprooms, down 4.1 percent by volume in 2024, are going back to the basics—focusing on customer service, refining business strategies, and expanding offerings.
U.S. beer shipments declined 1.6% to 193 million barrels in 2024 vs. 2023. That puts volume down 10% in the last three years, shedding over 21 million barrels since 2021.
For the May/June 2025 The New Brewer, we present our annual Industry Review issue. The issue provides an overview of the performance of craft breweries in 2024, which saw the overall segment down 4%. It includes in-depth analysis of each segment including brewpubs, taprooms, microbreweries, regional breweries, and large breweries/imports. Read More
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Whether you are a seasoned data jockey or just dipping your toe into the world of key performance indicators (KPIs), boosting your guest check average (GCA) is an excellent way to start increasing on-premise sales. Read More
Explore what happened in packaged craft beer in the last year, from the evolution of package types to trends by channel to pricing.Read More
See the results of the 2024 Raw Material Survey. This survey dives deep in the weeds of what craft brewers are using for fermentables and hops, as well as what they expect to use in the year ahead.Read More
In this installment of the BA "Craft Beer &" series, we explore the growth trajectory of distilled spirits, consumer trends, and the crossover taking place by breweries to ensure the upswell in spirits doesn't pass them by.Read More